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Double Ten: Will the Qingtian and White Flag commemorating the Revolution of 1911 disappear in Hong Kong-BBC News

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  • Ye Jingsi
  • BBC Chinese reporter from Hong Kong

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In 2017, the Hong Kong pro-Taiwan group was able to enter the Zhongshan Park next to the Red House on the Castle Peak in Tuen Mun, New Territories for the last time to hold the double tenth flag-raising ceremony.

On October 10, 1911, the Hubei revolutionary armed forces who followed the China League launched the Wuchang Uprising to overthrow the Manchu and Qing feudal regimes and establish the Republic of China. The Double Ten was designated as National Day. Hong Kong, as the predecessor of Sun Yat-sen’s integration and founding of the United League, the Xingzhonghui General Association, planned the revolution, and was also the place where Sun Yat-sen was educated. Since then, Hong Kong has become associated with the two terms “Xinhai Revolution” and “Double Ten Festival”.

Since the separation of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party in 1949, Hong Kong under British colonial rule has celebrated the National Day of the People’s Republic of China. There have been occasional conflicts with groups celebrating the National Day of the Republic of China. After the transfer of sovereignty in 1997, the celebration of Double 10th Festival has gradually become a niche event in Hong Kong; in 2020, a 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19; new crown virus) epidemic, coupled with the promulgation of the “Hong Kong National Security Law” by Beijing, double 10th Festival activities are almost suspended.

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In 2021, on the occasion of the 110th Anniversary of the 1911 Revolution held by the Pro-organizational Societies in Mainland China and Hong Kong, the event “Celebrating Double Ten” was labelled “Taiwan Independence” by the Hong Kong government, and it was extended to the Taipei and Beijing cross-strait affairs authorities. The exchange of fire between people.

The pro-Taiwan groups that the BBC Chinese contacted expressed with emotion that there are no plans to hold double 10th commemorative activities this year. Taiwanese scholars familiar with the situation in Hong Kong believe that as the Kuomintang’s use of the CCP declines, the pro-Taiwan overseas Chinese groups in Hong Kong will inevitably face squeeze.

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